Funding and Building your Business

"In early April, the company’s chief executive, Julie Farris, let a handful of venture firms know she was interested in raising money. Each pursued her relentlessly, wined and dined her, called constantly, and some even refused to take accept a “no” after the deal was wrapped up in a month without them."

A well-orchestrated multi-touch B2B marketing campaign should include outbound telemarketing as part of the plan. Picking up the phone after disseminating multiple impressions is essential to optimizing campaign ROI. Unfortunately, many sales team members dread…

There are two distinctly different and often conflicting sides to the matter of employment references — checking the references of individuals we may be interested in hiring and giving out reference information at the request…

The Montana Board of Research and Commercialization Technology is accepting proposals for funding. Proposals are due August 1, 2003. The RFP may be found on the web at http://commerce.state.mt.us/BRD/R%26C/Includes/04RFP.pdf. If you have any questions about…

Last but not least, overall revenues booked through the Web site
in Q1 2003 were 125% higher than in the same quarter the year
before.

Should you buy a business or start your own? This is the question pondered by many people who think about giving up their job and becoming their own boss. There are pros and cons that…

"These "open-book management" concepts aren’t unique to us, but they have gone a long way toward enabling us to preserve our culture, and even to tweak it in a way that makes sense for a maturing enterprise. These days, employees who are also stockholders don’t think twice about foregoing a quarterly bonus that could be detrimental to the long-term value of their holdings."

The recipe for a successful business meal seems deceptively easy. "Let’s meet for lunch," you tell a client or associate. You get together. You talk business. Christopher Elliott Special for The Republic Sounds simple enough….

"Leadership is not inherited. It is not granted. It is not gift-wrapped. Leadership is a quality that is both learned and earned."

Federal Funding Opportunities * Department of Commerce o Development and commercialization of Science On a Sphere project * Department of Defense o Information Support Server Environment Guard software o Establish a technology base for and…